Child Abuse to Record High Due to Economic and Social Insecurity

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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Last year, 2084 children who had been sexually, physically or psychologically abused were looked after in Swiss hospitals. Families are increasingly overburdened due to economic and social uncertainties, says pediatrician Dörthe Harms Huser.

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A legislative measure seeks to establish mandatory parenting workshops for parents and custodians in Puerto Rico, as a preventive tool to reduce child abuse and promote safe and loving homes. The initiative, known as the Act for Compulsory Education of Responsible Breeding, is the author of representative Ricardo Rey. The law proposes that these workshops be offered in three key scenarios: prior to the discharge of newborns from hospital, as a r…